[Chris <chris@tandjrec.com>]
quoted 2 lines Pretty much 85% of all jungle/drum and bass stuff utilizes the amen> Pretty much 85% of all jungle/drum and bass stuff utilizes the amen
> break or a similar break.
What does that mean? Aren't all breaks similar? Are you saying 85% of
jungle samples their breakbeats? Did you do a scientific study, btw?
Anyway, fuck all y'all. The amen still wrecks the place. 808, 909,
303, Funky Drummer and Amen. There's a reason they all got so popular.
You listen to a Remarc record, a Doc Scott record, a Squarepusher record
and an Erik B and Rakim record and you tell me that the Amen is
played out. People were saying it was played out before Remarc, before
Squarepusher, before Hrvatski + Lesser, etc. It's drum samples that
happen to sound good. How can drum samples be played out?
I think one of the things that's pushed me away from IDM in recent years
is this orientalism. The idea that a drum sound is played out- that
making innovative "sounds" instead of tracks or mixes, is the problem.
I'd rather listen to a solid hour-long minimal acid set than listen to
some wank show off how many computations per second his Powerbook gets.
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